մահակ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Armenian մահակ (mahak).

Pronunciation

Noun

մահակ (mahak)

  1. club, cudgel, truncheon, baton

Declension


Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

According to Asatryan, from Middle Iranian *mahāk, an agent noun from the Iranian root *manθH- (to agitate, stir, churn). For the suffix see -ակ (-ak). On the root see Cheung.

Noun

մահակ (mahak)

  1. club, cudgel

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), մահակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), մահակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), մահակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 234a
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 264
  • Asatrjan, G. S. (2013), “Parfjanskoje gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in Toxtasʹjev S. R., Lurʹje P. B., editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Sbornik statej k 90-letiju Vladimira Aronoviča Livšica (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istorija, →ISBN, page 103
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